Laura Lippman quotes

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience. (Laura Lippman)
I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college. View quote
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career. View quote
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for. View quote
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I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws. View quote
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Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. View quote
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There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat. View quote
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She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life. View quote
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Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. View quote
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There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life. View quote
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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre. (Laura Lippman)